{"id":237,"date":"2013-03-01T08:11:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T07:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prosefest.rs\/?p=237"},"modified":"2019-09-20T11:05:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T10:05:18","slug":"oto-tolnai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/2012\/ucesnici\/oto-tolnai\/","title":{"rendered":"OTT\u00d3 Tolnai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/prosefest.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oto-Tolnai.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-238\" alt=\"Oto Tolnai\" src=\"http:\/\/prosefest.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oto-Tolnai.jpg\" width=\"166\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a>OTT\u00d3 Tolnai<\/strong> was born in Kanji\u017ea in 1940. The works of this poet, storyteller, playwright and essayist have been translated into Serbian, German, Polish, English, Dutch, Slovakian, French and Italian. Ott\u00f3 Tolnai is the most prolific and all-rounded author in the literature of Vojvodinian Hungarians. He has experimented with all possible art forms, living a life in metamorphoses, shifting from poetry to essay, from experimental novel to drama. He studied Hungarian Language and Literature in Novi Sad and Philosophy in Zagreb. He has received all major literary awards of former Yugoslavia \u2013 Hid Award twice (1974, 1978), <strong>Szirmai Award<\/strong> (1988), Todor Manojlovi\u0107 Award (2007) and in Hungary \u2013 the awards Attila J\u00f3zsef (1991), Endre Ady (1995), Tibor D\u00e9ry (1995) Milan F\u00fcst (1997), S\u00e1ndor We\u00f6res (1999), and Mikl\u00f3s Radn\u00f3ti (2000). Elected to the Hungarian Academy of Literature and Arts in 1998, he received the highest Hungarian state award, the Kossuth Prize, in 2007.<br \/>\nPoetry collections: <strong>Homor\u00fa versek<\/strong> (<strong>The Concave Poems<\/strong>, 1963); <strong>Sir\u00e1lymellcsont<\/strong> (<strong>The Seagull\u2019s Breastbone<\/strong>, 1967); <strong>Val\u00f3ban mi lesz vel\u00fcnk?<\/strong> (<strong>What Will Really Become of Us<\/strong>, with Istv\u00e1n Domonkos, 1968); <strong>MAO-POE<\/strong>, with Istv\u00e1n Domonkos, 1968; <strong>Szepl\u00f6telen kis g\u00e9pek, cs\u00f6pp fejedelmi jelv\u00e9nyek<\/strong> (<strong>Flawless Little Machines<\/strong>, Tiny Royal Insignia, 1968); <strong>Agyonvert csipke<\/strong> (<strong>Battered Lace<\/strong>, 1969); <strong>Legyek karfiol<\/strong> (<strong>To Be a Cauliflower<\/strong>, 1973); <strong>Versek<\/strong> (<strong>Poems<\/strong>, 1973); <strong>Vil\u00e1gpor<\/strong> (<strong>The Dust of the World<\/strong>, 1980); <strong>Vid\u00e9ki Orfeusz<\/strong> (<strong>A Provincial Orpheus<\/strong>, selected poems, 1983); <strong>Gy\u00f6kerr\u00e1g\u00f3<\/strong> (<strong>The Root Devourer<\/strong>, 1986); <strong>Versek k\u00f6nyve<\/strong> (<strong>A Book of Poems<\/strong>, 1992); <strong>Wilhelm-dalok<\/strong> (<strong>The Poems of Wilhelm<\/strong>, 1992); <strong>\u00c1rvacs\u00e1th<\/strong> (<strong>Orphans<\/strong>, 1992); <strong>Balk\u00e1ni bab\u00e9r<\/strong> (<strong>Tha Balkan Laurel<\/strong>, 2001); <strong>Sz\u00f6g a nadirban<\/strong> (<strong>A Nail in Nadir<\/strong>, 2005); <strong>\u00d3mama egy rotterdami gengszterfilmben<\/strong> (<strong>The Granny in a Rotterdam Gangster Movie<\/strong>, novel of poems, 2006).<br \/>\nCollections of children poetry: <strong>Elef\u00e1ntpuszi<\/strong> (<strong>Elephant\u2019s Kiss<\/strong>, 1982); <strong>Rokoko<\/strong> (<strong>Rococo<\/strong>, 1986)<br \/>\nNovels: <strong>Rovarh\u00e1z<\/strong> (<strong>The House of Insects<\/strong>, 1969); <strong>A tengeri kagyl\u00f3<\/strong> (<strong>Seashell<\/strong>, 2011.)<br \/>\nCollections of novelettes: <strong>Gogol hal\u00e1la<\/strong> (<strong>Gogol\u2019s Death<\/strong>, 1972); <strong>Vir\u00e1g utca 3<\/strong> (<strong>3 Florists\u2019 Street<\/strong>, 1983); <strong>Pr\u00f3z\u00e1k konyve<\/strong> (<strong>The Book of Prose<\/strong>, 1987); <strong>K\u00e9kit\u00f6goly\u00f3<\/strong> (<strong>The Blue<\/strong>, 1994); <strong>A pompeji szerelmesek<\/strong> (<strong>The Pompeii Lovers<\/strong>, 2007); <strong>Grenad\u00edrmas<\/strong>, 2008; <strong>Vil\u00e1g\u00edt\u00f3torony elad\u00f3<\/strong> (<strong>A Lighthouse for Sale<\/strong>, 2010).<br \/>\nBooks of essays on visual arts: <strong>S\u00e1fr\u00e1ny Imre<\/strong>, a monograph, 1978; <strong>Meztelen boh\u00f3c<\/strong> (<strong>The Naked Clown<\/strong>, 1992); <strong>Rothadt m\u00e1rv\u00e1ny<\/strong> (<strong>The Rotten Marble<\/strong>, 1997).<br \/>\nStaged dramas: <strong>V\u00e9gelad\u00e1s<\/strong> (<strong>Clearance Sale<\/strong>, 1979); <strong>\u0412\u0430\u0443\u0435r-aspirin<\/strong>, 1982; <strong>Brili\u00e1ns<\/strong> (<strong>Diamond<\/strong>, 1985, 1991); <strong>Paripacitrom<\/strong> (<strong>Horse Breath<\/strong>, 1991); at the <strong>Budapest Jurta Sz\u00ednh\u00e1z theatre Mamuttemet\u00f6<\/strong> (<strong>Mammoth Graveyard<\/strong>, 1988); collection of dramatic texts <strong>V\u00e9gel(\u00f6)ad\u00e1s<\/strong> (<strong>Clearance Sale<\/strong> \u2013 The Last Performance, 1997).<\/p>\n<p>Available in Serbian:<br \/>\n<strong>Gerilske pesme<\/strong> (<strong>Guerrilla Poems<\/strong>, poetry, 1967); <strong>ZOO<\/strong> (poetry, bilingual, 1969); <strong>Ku\u0107a insekata<\/strong> (<strong>The House of Insects<\/strong>, novel, 1976); <strong>Pri\u010de iz robne ku\u0107e<\/strong> (<strong>Stories from a Department Store<\/strong>, novelettes, 1986); <strong>Krik ru\u017ee<\/strong> (<strong>A Cry of Roses<\/strong>, poetry, 1988); <strong>Rusma ili minijum mo\u017eda<\/strong> (<strong>To the Russians or Minium Perhaps<\/strong>, poetry, 1990);<strong> Krvolo\u010dna ze\u010dica<\/strong> (<strong>A Blood Thirsty Doe<\/strong>, short prose, 2006); <strong>Pesnik od svinjske masti<\/strong> (<strong>A Poet of Pig Fat<\/strong>, novel-interview, 2009) and <strong>Morska \u0161koljka<\/strong> (<strong>Seashell<\/strong>, novel, 2011).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTT\u00d3 Tolnai was born in Kanji\u017ea in 1940. 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